Mohammad Ahmadullah Siddiqi

Mohammad Ahmadullah Siddiqi was an Indian-American professor of English and Journalism at Western Illinois University and the founding president of the Students Islamic Movement of India. He founded SIMI in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh on 25 April 1977 with the goal of eradicating Western cultural influences on India, and his group was banned by the Indian government after the 9/11 attacks in 2001. However, Siddiqi went on to emigrate to the United States and become an honored professor at a university in Macomb, Illinois.